Monday, April 27, 2009

I stayed in this night. Got in. Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek free concert cancelled late. I KNOW what that means. The bum either didn't make it on time or decided to not show up.

Instead, had a poppin' slightly Stickam session with some "friends"I came home to a wet slippery kitchen among other things at the house.

2 Kegs at our house. 5 at another, 2 at another, and then 3 more. A total of 12 over 4 houses. Riot starts around Scotty's house where my roomates are friends with and usually go there. They were amidst the riot and many came back to the house after and during the riot. I heard the flashbangs and fireworks that were used.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Friday, April 10, 2009

On Tuesday, State Rep. Betty Brown (R) caused a firestorm during House testimony on voter identification legislation when she said that Asian-Americans should change their names because they’re too hard to pronounce:

“Rather than everyone here having to learn Chinese — I understand it’s a rather difficult language — do you think that it would behoove you and your citizens to adopt a name that we could deal with more readily here?” Brown said.

Brown later told [Organization of Chinese Americans representative Ramey] Ko: “Can’t you see that this is something that would make it a lot easier for you and the people who are poll workers if you could adopt a name just for identification purposes that’s easier for Americans to deal with?”

Yesterday, Brown continued to resist calls to apologize. Her spokesman said that Democrats “want this to just be about race.”

In a report just released, Casselberry officer Jeffrey Shumway said the two were sharing a firing lane at the Shoot Straight range on U.S. Highway 17-92, taking turns shooting and talking to people in an adjacent lane. "They seem to be getting along fine," he wrote in the report.

"At one point in the video you can see Mitchell Moore firing his pistol down range," Shumway wrote. "Marie Moore walked up behind Mitchell Moore and pointed a revolver at the back of his head and fired a single shot. The act appeared to be deliberate.

Investigator has not found any notes written by the woman that would indicate why she did it, Casselberry deputy police Chief William McNeil said.

The murder weapon was a gun rented from the shooting range, McNeil said. "We have found nothing to indicate they had [owned] any weapons," he said. The police report indicated they bought a membership there Sunday.

While family members indicated Marie Moore had a history of mental illness, McNeil said investigators still don't know any details about that.

There are restrictions about gun ownership in some cases of mental incompetence, but that would not stop a person from renting a gun at a shooting range, McNeil said.

Mitchell Moore died at the scene and his mother died a short time later at Florida Hospital Altamonte.